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A look at rsync performance

A look at rsync performance

Posted Aug 19, 2010 11:55 UTC (Thu) by zmower (subscriber, #3005)
In reply to: A look at rsync performance by Liefting
Parent article: A look at rsync performance

Using netcat looks tricky (and less secure) compared to :
sender$ tar cf - * | ssh user@receiver tar -C $dir xvf -


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A look at rsync performance

Posted Aug 23, 2010 23:49 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Yes, but it has WAY less overhead. I know there's a way to tell ssh to use a less CPU-heavy cipher but I always forget how.

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